We Are The Boat

  “The day before [the Bay du Nord project was approved], the federal and Newfoundland and Labrador governments took the word "petroleum" out of the name of the regulatory body that has been overseeing the offshore oil industry since 1986. Once the legal niceties are done, the soon-to-be-former C-NLOPB will be known as the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Energy Board, or the C-NLOEB.” Notice that the federal govt was involved in this name change. I dug a little deeper into this odd coincidence. I found this article from Apr 5: “N.L. government lifts 15-year ban on onshore wind farms” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-wind-moratorium-lifts-1.6409296 Also, on Dec 18, 2012, in order to ensure the economic viability of the Muskrat Falls Hydro Electric Dam, the province enacted legislation prohibiting any other electricity producers on Nfld. This de fact prohibited wind energy . https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/resea

        Fair Vote Canada links to research showing that countries with an electoral system based on proportional representation act faster on climate change, score higher on Yale’s Environmental Performance Index, and have made 117% greater use of renewable sources of energy. The climate crisis is now the most frightening symptom of the ongoing massive political crisis that gave rise to it and that underpins it at its root. One of the main sources of that “root rot” in Canada, both federally and provincially, is an electoral system based on false majorities and voter inequality. For many decades our deception-riddled electoral system has been undermining our attempts to hold elections that try to uphold even the most basic of democratic principles: the principle of “majority rules.”  For far too long we have mislead ourselves by using the phrase, “majority government” to refer to a government that has won a majority of seats instead of a majority of votes from actual people. Every